This paper investigates the impact of foreign firms on exports of domestic exporting firms. We show that domestic firms respond to an increase in the presence of foreign firms by increasing their exports, despite the increase in foreign presence can drive up the production cost and make domestic...

Using a Monte Carlo experiment, this paper explores the impact of data aggregation on measuring the FDI spillovers. We find the aggregation significantly covers up the spillovers, which is further exacerbated by the correlation between the foreign presence and the explanatory variable at the...

This paper investigates the impact of FDI on domestic exporting firms. We show that domestic firms respond to an increase in the presence of FDI by increasing their exports even though the increase in foreign presence can drive up production costs and make the domestic market more profitable....